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A year after Jasmin de Nuit, Celine Ellena presents her second fragrant creation for The Different Company. Sel de Vetiver blends waves of ‘a fierce, burning vetiver’ with a luminous accord evoking an imaginary note of salt. The fragrance designed with a boldly sincere artistic sensibility will thrill men and women looking for new olfactory sensations.
Eau de Parfum: 3 fl. oz. glass bottle, 6.8 fl. oz. leather-wrapped bottle. Long Trip: 1.7 fl. oz. 48-hour range: 1/3 fl. oz.
Three different vetiver notes were used: a fraction with fresh, tangy waves of scent, a Haitian vetiver essence and a French Bourbon vetiver, allowing the fragrance to reveal different facets of the plant: woody, smoky and more. The other unusual thing about it: the creation of a salt accord, a fictitious note in perfumery, thanks to the alliance of lovage (an aromatic note), resinoid iris (drier) and salicylates (slightly solar note). The fragrance is punctuated with a pinch of grapefruit and cardamom for freshness and patchouli for extra voluptuousness.
The elegant, spare and massive house bottle, designed by Thierry de Baschmakoff.
Grapefruit, Cardamom, Vetiver Fraction
Haitian Vetiver, Geranium, Lovage, Ylang-Ylang
French Bourbon, Vetiver, Patchouli, Resinoid Iris, Salicylates
My impression of Sel de Vetiver by The Different Company is a positive one. It comes across to me like a minimal Eau de Merveilles (Hermes). It does not "hit the back of the throat" the way Merveilles does. It has a more masculine assertiveness that is striking and of the same tonality. It comes across as more of a spherical than pyramid experience, again, appropriate to the more d... More
